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Republican presidential candidates dismissed the dominance of Donald Trump in early primary polling, scrambling to position themselves days before their first debate.
While candidates and their teams have spent hours privately strategizing how best to...

WASHINGTON In this summer of political gloom, the drumbeat from the American heartland to Washington has been relentless: Fix the economy. Fix the immigration system. Talk to each other. It's one reason why political insurgents Donald Trump and Sen....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The Missouri Legislature's 2016 session will begin with new Republicans at the helm of both chambers after Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey announced his resignation Friday. But Senate Majority Leader Ron Richard, R-Joplin,...

More than 20 years after banning prisoners from receiving student aid, some federal and state inmates could be eligible for Pell grant money to take college courses while still behind bars. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta...

Louisiana's four major candidates for governor told a packed audience of local elected officials Friday that they support giving municipalities more authority to raise their own taxes for roadwork. The three Republicans — Public Service Commissioner Scott...

A Republican wants to explicitly allow clergy in Georgia to refuse to perform gay marriages — a protection they already enjoy under the U.S. Constitution. House Speaker David Ralston earlier this month said he will support the Pastor's Protection Act....

A Republican wants to explicitly allow clergy in Georgia to refuse to perform gay marriages — a protection they already enjoy under the U.S. Constitution. House Speaker David Ralston earlier this month said he will support the "Pastor's Protection...

WASHINGTON Donald Trump could do to the 2016 general election exactly what Ross Perot did a generation ago with a Clinton pulling away from a Bush and a wealthy business mogul drawing a surprisingly large share of the vote. A new...

MANCHESTER, N.H. Having surged to the top of the polls nationally and in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Donald Trump is now the clear front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Set against the backdrop of a...

Despite promises that it wouldn't come to this, Congress and the White House are charging toward another government shutdown.The next fiscal crisis could come as soon as Oct. 1 unless a new government spending plan is approved. But with House members...

WASHINGTON Amid new revelations about U.S. intelligence information on Hillary Clinton's private email account, congressional Republicans are demanding to know whether the former secretary of state, her lawyer and the State Department have hindered...

WASHINGTON With the Fox News debates only one week away, candidates likely to make it to the main stage are beginning to hear some details. According to two people familiar with the network's plans, candidates will get one minute to answer each...

Congress is heading out for a five-week summer recess in anything but a cheerful vacation mood, leaving behind a pile of unfinished business that all but guarantees a painful fall.
Not long after they return in September, lawmakers must vote on President...

The Senate passed a long-term transportation bill, but with House lawmakers already dispersed for their August recess, the bill will become just one more sticky issue on a jam-packed congressional agenda in the fall. The $350 billion long-term bill was...

MIAMI Rivals Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will speak at the same event for the first time during the presidential campaign when they deliver their messages to black voters at the National Urban League conference in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, a gathering...

It was a sunny Wednesday morning near the Capitol last week when Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, standing before a crowd of low-wage workers on strike, led a rally to make his case for a $15 minimum wage. Some in the protest waved...

SAN JOSE, Calif. More than 60 percent of Californians including a majority in every region of the state, from the inland areas to the coast say global warming is already affecting California, a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday that his office has received video taken in a Planned Parenthood clinic he says is consistent with other stealthily recorded footage that has Republicans again taking on the biggest abortion provider in the...

WASHINGTON The Obama administration is confronting a tougher than expected fight with Congress over the Iran nuclear agreement and is scrambling to muster enough votes to ensure it survives, U.S. officials said. White House officials are...

WASHINGTON Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is not exactly eating humble pie. Just a few days after an extraordinary public scolding by three Republican Party leaders on the Senate floor, including fellow Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Cruz is continuing his...